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The Yemeni Government said yesterday that it had foiled a terrorist plot to take over strategic ports and destroy oil pipelines, as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued a new warning that al-Qaeda may be planning attacks in the country this month.

In the latest threat to foreign interests by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, (AQAP) militants were allegedly conspiring to attack ports on Yemen’s southern coast and on the western Red Sea shoreline.

In renewed advice yesterday, the Foreign Office, which withdrew all staff on Tuesday from the British Embassy in Sana’a, warned: “AQAP has previously targeted Western interests